Charles Wilson. Dated 1849 opened 1850. Early Gothic style with late Gothic treatment to upper parts of tower. Almost square nave with aisles under single slate roof and slender east tower clasped by nave. Tall lancets, those at east end with drip moulds. Prominent tower has polygonal clasping buttresses and blind panelling to clock and bell stages. Openwork parapet with tall crocketted pinnacles. Doorway has deeply moulded arch with shafts. Strapwork detail and date 1849 to wooden tympanum. Original cast-iron railings to east side of church only. Tiny western projection with 3 lancets in echelon. Attached to south west corner of church is a small gabled stone house with polygonal extension and rectangular window and drip mould. Good Gothic interior has wooden galleries on three sides supported on cast-iron columns, massive organ and pulpit to west end. Gallery also has columns with rich stiff leaf capitals supporting ribbed plaster vaults, quadripartite to aisles, higher tunnel vault in centre. Fully furnished with box pews.
2007 Wardlaw Church in Hamilton Road, Rutherglen closed and formed a union with Rutherglen West Parish Church to become Rutherglen West & Wardlaw Parish Church.

The memorials are located around the pulpit.

TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN
PROUD AND GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THESE GALLANT SONS OF
RUTHERGLEN WEST PARISH
CHURCH WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE
FIRST WORLD WAR
1914 -1918

James Bryson
James Dalziel
William Fox
James Greenlees
William Hutchison
James McLean
Alexander Miller
Robert Muir
Walter Patrick
William Patrick
Harry Slight
John Thomson
Robert Wright

Aitken John
Baird David
Brown James
Crawford Thomas
Culbert Thomas
Elliot Robert
Fisher Peter
Fleming Alexr.
Fleming William
Gilchrist James
Gillies Malcolm
Grant Duncan
Gray Robert
Horner George
Kelly John M.
Lappin Robert
Little Samuel
Lyons John M.
Martindale James
May Claude B.
Millar William
McCaig Joseph
McCormack James
McGregor Daniel
McKay Robert